Pétain’s rise signaled a rapid collapse of the Third Republic and complicated U.S. diplomatic calculations about recognition and relations with any successor French regime.
On June 16, 1940, Marshal Philippe Pétain was appointed premier of France as the French government moved to seek an armistice with Germany.
Pétain’s rise signaled a rapid collapse of the Third Republic and complicated U.S. diplomatic calculations about recognition and relations with any successor French regime.
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